Blackboard Text Editor

Blackboard features a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor. This allows you to format text that you enter into Blackboard textboxes in a similar way as you would format a Microsoft Word document.

1. Bold

2. Italic

3. Underline

4. Strike-through

5. Heading

6. Font

7. Text Size

8. Bulleted list

9. Numbered list

10. Text colour

11. Highlight colour

12. Remove formatting

13. Preview

14. Help

15. Full Screen

16. Expand / Collapse extra buttons.

17. Cut

18. Copy

19. Paste

20. Find

21. Undo

22. Redo

23. Align Left

24. Align Centre

25. Align Right

26. Align Full

27. Indent

28. Outdent

29. Super script

30. Subscript

31. Insert / Edit Hyperlink

32. Remove Hyperlink

33. Text direction left to right

34. Text direction right to left

35. Line

36. Horizontal Rule

37. Insert non-breaking space

38. Spell check (enabled by default)

39. Browse your YouTube videos

40. Insert file

41. Insert image

42. Insert media

43. Maths editor

44. Mashups : YouTube / SlideShare / Flickr

45. Show non-printing characters

46. Blockquote

47. Insert Symbol

48. Insert Emoticon

49. Add Anchor link

50. Insert table

51. Table Row Properties

52. Table Cell Properties

53. Insert Row Before

54. Insert Row After

55. Delete Row

56. Insert Column Before

57. Insert Column After

58. Delete Column

59. Merge Table Cells

60. Split Merged Table Cells

61. HTML View

62. Edit CSS Style

You can find detailed instructions on using each aspect of the text editor on the Blackboard web site.

Further information about the Math Editor is available on the Wiris web site.

The text editor also supports keyboard shortcuts, so that power-users may work faster within Blackboard.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcut

Description

RIGHT ARROW

Move one character to the right.

LEFT ARROW

Move one character to the left.

DOWN ARROW

Move down one line.

UP ARROW

Move up one line.

CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
MAC: CMD+RIGhT ARROW

Move right one word.

CTRL+LEFT ARROW
MAC: CMD+LEFT ARROW

Move left one word.

END

Move to the end of the line.

HOME

Move to the start of the line.

CTRL+DOWN ARROW
MAC: CMD+DOWN ARROW

Move down one paragraph.

CTRL+UP ARROW
MAC: CMD+UP ARROW

Move up one paragraph.

PAGE DOWN

Move down one page.

PAGE UP

Move up one page.

CTRL+HOME
MAC: CMD+HOME

Move to the beginning of the text.

CTRL+END
MAC: CMD+END

Move to the end of the text.

Selection

SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW

Extend the selection one character to the right.

SHIFT+LEFT ARROW

Extend the selection one character to the left.

CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
MAC: CMD+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW

Extend the selection right one word.

CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
MAC: CMD+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW

Extend the selection left one word.

SHIFT+UP ARROW

Extend the selection up one line.

SHIFT+DOWN ARROW

Extend the selection down one line.

SHIFT+END

Extend the selection to the end of the current line.

SHIFT+HOME

Extend the selection to the start of the current line.

SHIFT+PAGE DOWN

Extend the selection down one page.

SHIFT+PAGE UP

Extend the selection up one page.

CTRL+SHIFT+END

Extend the selection to the end of the document.

CTRL+SHIFT+HOME
MAC: CMD+SHIFT+HOME

Extend the selection to the beginning of the document.

CTRL+A
MAC: CMD+A

Select all elements in the document.

Editing

BACKSPACE

Delete the selection. Or, if you make no selection, delete the character to the left of the mouse pointer.